Heppner gazette., June 29, 1911, Image 2

DOINGSOFTHEWEEK
Current Events of interest Gathered
From lbs World at Large. -
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Nebraska wheat raisers are using
women as harvest hands and paying
the full scale.
An angler at Coburg, Ore., caught
ten fish in five casts, using several
hooks on his line.
General Wood's plan for abandon
ing some of the small military posts
will not affect the Vancouver bar
racks.
By the bursting of a reservoir at
Grand Junction, Cal., 5.000 cattle
were drowned, but no other lives
were lost.
An investigating committee in Chi
cago says that society leaders are
the owners of many dives, but the
names are withheld.
Mildred Holland, an actress, was
sentenced to one year in the peniten
tiary of New York state for attempt
ing to commit suicide.
An Alaska miner, thought dead.
visited his home in Derby, Conn., and
there saw a monument erected to
his memory in the cemetery.
Senator Lorimer's friends deny cor
ruption and liquor men are attacked.
President Taft sends message of
greeting to King George, and wishes
friendly relations to continue.
Pastors at Colville, Wash., have
formed a baseball nine and will play
match games for the benefit of a
church building fund.
While a pastor in Wheeling, Va., is
preaching, a highwayman holds up
the church treasurer in the ante
room, who had just made the collec
tion, and escapes.
The secret of the destruction of
the battleship Maine will never be
known, according to a statement of
the chief engineer, for the wreck
was so complete that it cannot be
told whether the vessel was blown
up from within or without.
The John Day Valley, Oregon, wool
clip will be 1.000,000 pounds.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
9797c; club, S687c; Russian, 85
86c; Valley, S7c; 40-fold, 87c.
Millstuffs Bran, $24.5025 per
ton; middlings, $31; shorts, $25.50
26; rolled barley, $29.50 30.50.
Corn Whole, $29; cracked, $30 per
ton.
Barley Choice feed $27 per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $27.5028 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, Eastern Oregon, No
1, $2021; light mixed, $1819;
eavy mixed, $1617; alfalfa, $12.50
13; clover, $12.5G13; grain hay,
$13.5014.50.
Poultry Hens, 1516c; broilers, 20
22c; ducks, young, 15c; geese, nom
inal; turkeys, 20c; dressed,' choice,
25c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 21c
rer d6zen; case count, 20c per dozen;
Eastern, 1920c.
Butter City creamery extra, 1 and
2-pound prints, in boxes, 24c per
pound; less than box lots, cartons
and delivery extra.
Cheese Twins, triplets and daisies,
li'UHM'C per pound; Young Amer
icas, 1515c.
Pork Fancy, 10104c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 11412c per pound.
Fresh Fruit Strawberries. Oregon,
$1.25 1.75 per crate; gooseberries,
56c per pound; apples, $13 per
box; cherries,' $1.20 1.50 per box;
U010c per pound; apricots, $1.50
2 per crate; cantaloupes, $2.50
3.25 per crate; peaches, $1.50 1.75
per rate.
Sack Vegetables New carrots, $2
per sack; turnips, $2; beets, $2.
Potatoes Old, $3 per hundred; new
California, 45c per pound.
Vegetables Asparagus, 7590c per
box; beans, 1012c; cabbage, $3
per hundredweight; corn, 2025c per
dozen; cucumbers, $1 (g 1.25 per doz
en; eggplant, 15c per pound; garlic,
10 12c per pound; lettuce, 30 35c
per dozen; hothouse lettuce, $1.25
1.75 per box: peas, hq 6c per pound;
peppers, 30 35c per pound; radishes,
124c per dozen; rhubarb, 1424c
per pound; tomatoes, $1.2al.ia
Onions Yellow. $
hundred; crystal wax, $3.50 per hun
dred.
Hops 1911 contracts, 23 25c per
pound; 1910 crop. 22c; 1909 crop,
loft 154c; olds, h$i 10c.
Mohair Choice, 36fi37 4c pound.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 10 16c per
round, according to shrinkage; Val
ley. 14 164c per pound.
Cattle Prime grain-fed steers, $6
.25; prime hay-fed steers, $66.25;
choice, $5.75(5 6; fair to good, $5.25
5.50; common, $5 5.25; prime cows,
$5'5.50; good to choice, $4.75 5; fair
to good. $4.50fi 4.75; poor. $4.25
4.50; choice heifers, $5.50,a5.75;
choice bulls. $.50f5; good to choice
bulls. $4.25 4.50; choice light calves.
$7fi7.50; good to choice. $6.757;
choice heavy, $5 5.50; choice stags.
$5.731 6.25; good to choice stags, $5.25
5.75.
Hoes Choice hogs, $6.75'?? 7; good
to choice, $6.50fi 6.75; choice heavy.
ff)6.25; common, JjS?; stock, Jb.io
(fi 7.50. I
Sheep Choice Fpring lambs, Wn
C .25: choice yearlintrs, $!0fi5; good
to choice, $J ri-fi 4.75; fair to medium.
1414.23: choice ewes. $3 3.50; good
to choice ewes. $2.7" fi 3: fair to rned
1'iro ewes. $2.5071 2.75: good to choice
heavy wemers. $3 75'?i4: old heavy
aethers, $334; mixed lots, $455.
WOMEN AS HARVESTERS.
"Send Us Women" Is Cry From Dis
tricts in Nebraska.
Omaha This week wheat and oat
harvest will begin in the counties
along the south Hue of the state, and
before the end of another week it will
be in full swing through the South
Platte country.
In other years the cry "send us
men" has been heard far and wide
from the farmers, but this year the
appeal has been changed. The farm
ers are exclaiming: "Send us worn
en."
During harvest, stacking and
threshing Nebraska farm wages for
years have been around $2.50 and
$3.00 a day. There was an advance
of 50 cents a day last year. The
last vear prices will rule this season,
and during the latter part of June,
the whole of July and a portion of
August the daily farm wage will be
from $3 to $3.50, for a 10-hour day.
Until last year the men had the
absolute right of way, but now they
are being crowded out and to quite
an extent
are being replaced by
young women
PORTLAND'S FIRE CHIEF
MEETS DEATH IN FLAMES
Portland David Campbell, veteran
chief of the Portland Fire Depart
ment, was killed at 8:35 Monday
morning, while heading a desperate
fight on flames surrounding thousands
of gallons of oil in the Union Oil
Company's plant at East Water and
East Salmon street. The fire was
one that imperiled the lives of scores
of firemen and thousands of onlook
ers. The plant was destroyed, at a
loss of $100,000.
Chief Campbell met death while
making courageous efforts to plan the
handling of a dangerous fire that had
been defying control. He walked
coollv into the burning place in
search of a possible solution to the
grave problem that confronted him
and his men. Warned of the risk, he
said simply that it was necessary
for him to go inside.
As he passed to the center of the
building a fearful explosion wrecked
the one-story concrete structure. The
chief was plunged to death in a
seething cauldron, amid tons of de
bris. There was trouble in identify
ing him when the body was removed
three hours later. Accumulation of
gases generated in empty oil tanks
and exposed to the heat is given as
the cause of the fatal explcsition.
Twelve or more firemen, working
at the north of the 1 building, were
nearly caught by the heavy concrete
wall which collapsed under the force
of the explosion. This wall fell out
ward into the street and the firemen
avoided, it by a mad scramble, a
heavy rush of air from the center"
of explosion lending impetus to their
flight. Battalion Chief Young was
thrown into the street and struck by
flying wreckage and Patrolman Evans
was knocked down by a bit ot con
crete. Neither was badly hurt.
WOMEN EXPECT SUFFRAGE.
Order of Minister Is All That Is
Required in Mexico.
Mexico City A suffrage movement,
which promises to become a factor
in Mexican politics, was launched re
cently by a woman's club -numbering
in its membership many of the
more prominent women of the capi
tal under the new regime. In a pe
tition directed to Emilio Vazquez
Gomez, minister of interior, more
than 500 women, who style them
selves "friends of the people," de
mand the right to vote and hold
office. They announce their choice
for president and vice-president, de
claring every favor, respectively,
Francisco I. Madero and Dr. Fran
cisco Vasquez Gomez.
If their petition receives the at
tention the women appear to expect,
the department of the interior will
command all authorities throughout
the republic to inscribe the names
of all women desiring to exercise the
franchise on the ron of voters and
to accept their ballots together with
those of the men. The petitioners
base their demands on guarantees
contained in the constitution, which,
they declare, applies to women as
well as to their brothers.
Father Sees Child Burn.
Seattle. Playing within sight
of
his father, little Francis Gouthro, 4-year-old
son of Ben Gouthro, a
teaming contractor residing at 1503
East 77th street, was burned to death
Sunday. The father had been work
ing about the horses in the back
yard, while the boy played in the
watron. and the two were lansrhine
rea. il.ta periam joking together. Suddenly the
father heard a cry, and, turning, saw
his little child running, his cotton
jumper on fire and the flames blaz
ing up about the child's head.
Finder Get Money Pot.
Cheyenne, Wyo. Reuben Stockwell
and S. W. White Monday won a suit
against William Taylor to recover
$1,000 in gold which they found buried
in Taylor's cellar.
The two men were employed by
Taylor to deepen and enlarge the
excavation under his house. 'In doing
the work they dug up a pot contain
ing the money. Taylor claimed it
and they pave it to him. Later,
Stockwell and White decided to sue
for the return of the gold.
Baptists Appeal to Czar.
Philadelphia. The Rev. Russell H.
Con well, of this city, and the Rev-
y. jj. Meyer, of England, have been
selected bv the executive committee
of the Baptist World Alliance as en
voys to St. Petersburg, to seek per
mission from the Czar for the erec
tion of a Baptist university in that
city. They will Mart within six
week". Berlin has been selected as
the place for the next meeting of
the Baptist Alliance.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP!!! OF THE STATE
INVADERS TO FEEL AX.
Foreign Corporations Operating in the
State Under Ban.
Salem Declaring that the State of
Oregon is losing approximately from
$10,000 to $25,000 annually because
of foreign corporations entering this
state to transact business without
complying with Oregon laws requir
ing the filing of certain papers and
the payment of declaration and an
nual license fees, Secretary of Stats
Olcott is sending out letters to all
district attorneys in the state request
ing them to advise him of all such
corporations in his district that the
fines and license fees may be recov
ered by actions at law.
"It does not seem to be generally
known," said Secretary Olcott in a
statement, "that there is any penalty
attached to the failure of foreign
corporations to comply with the laws
of this state in regard to the filing
of declarations, power of attorney
and certified copy of the articles ot
incorporation. However, I have con
cluded that section 6707 of Lord's
Oregon laws applies to foreign cor
porations that enter this state and
commence the transaction of busi
ness without first filing the above
papers and paying the declaration
and annual license fees. The sec
tion above cited provides that 'every
such corporation, joint stock com
pany or association, foreign as well
as domestic, shall pay an annual li
cense fee in proportion to the amount
of its authorized capital stock,' and
'any corporation, joint stock company
or association doing business in this
state contrary to this act shall be
liable to a fine of io0, to be recov
ered, together with any license iee
due, by an action at law in the sanio
of the state.'
"The law makes it the duty of the
secretary of state to request district
attorneys to institute actions to re
cover in cases where the law has
been violated, and it is the intention
of this office to see that foreign cor
porations doing business in Oregon
comply with the law."
CONVICTS TO SEE' PICTURES.
Amusement Fund Provides Baseball
' Outfits Also.
Salem From the amusement fund
of the state prisoners a moving pic
ture machine for the penitentiary will
be procured within the next few days
Superintendent James hopes to be
able to arrange for a circuit of
films to be used In the penitentiary
the industrial school, the state asy
lum and the deaf school and on the
asylum farm. A moving picture show
together with several numbers sup
plied by the convicts will be given
at the penitentiary on the Fourth or
July. An outdoor entertainment will
make up the greater part of the
day's programme.
The amusement fund of the pris
oners, which was created last month
when the earnings of the prisoners
in the shops was applied to this
fund since there was no contract for
shop work, consists of about $500
Two baseball outfits have been pur
chased, the two teams being known
as the shop team and the house team
It was from this fund that the pris
oners entertained the boys at the
state industrial school.
For Good Roads.
Start on a new campaign to obtain
good roads for Oregon was made at
a meeting of the Oregon Association
for Highway Improvement and the
trustees of the Oregon Development
League recently. At this meeting it was
practically decided that the develop
ment league will enter the campaign
actively in an effort to line up all
interests, both rural and city, on s
plan' that will be thoroughly repre
sentative. The development league
will hold its annual meeting August
14. 15 and 16. One of the days will
be given over to consideration of
the good roads problem. The matter
of taking up the work for good roads
will then be placed formally before
the delegates, and if the vote is fa
vorable, as it is expected it will De
the league will go ahead actively to
father a good roads bill that is bound
to be adopted by the next legisla
ture. Umatilla Wheat Good.
Athena The outlook for a bumper
wheat crop on the Umatilla Indian
reservation was never better than
now. The wheat is well headed and
there is plenty of moisture in the
land to fill the heads with grain.
If weather conditions remain as fa
vorable for the next 30 days as they
have been for the past month a yield
of 60 bushels to the acre will be a
common occurrence. The acreage in
wheat in this vicinity is somewhat
greater than last year. Farmers are
already getting their harvesters In
readiness for the coming crop. Sev
eral combines will be run by gas
machines this year.
Will Hold Strawberry Day.
Weston' A strawberry day and
horse show will be held at Weston
Saturday, July 1. Its object is to
advertise the resources of the moun
tain country near Weston, and espe
cially the strawberries grown with
out irrigation on mountain soil. These
ripen in midsummer, are much larger
than the Irrigated berry, and of de
licious flavor. The demand for them
exceeds the supply.
Sherwood to Have Sewer System.
Sherwood The city council has or
dered a large main sewer through
the center of town to drain Into a
septic tank. The cost will be about
$3000 and there is enough money In
the treasury to complete this part
of the work. It is planned by an
other year to have laterals that will
reach every part of the town.
GOOD APPLE CROP IN EAST.
Northwest Condition Brighten
as
Season Advances.
The Northwestern Fruit Exchange
gives the following report of apple
crop conditions:
Since the date of our last bulletin.
No. 94, no changes of special im
portance have been reported to the
exchange. Statements in regard to
the crops east of the Missouri river
are conflicting in many ways, but
the general tone confirms the previ
ously reiterated advices that ' the
yield In those districts will be much
larger than has been harvested for
a number of years. Many sections
In the east have been visited with
abundant rains which have helped
strengthen the situation. . On the
whole, the rains have been of excep
tional value at this time, following
the extremely hot weather and se
vere drouths. The June drop will
be much heavier than was expected,
while a number of localities report
blasting of some varieties. It seems
certain that New York and Michigan,
at least, will have bumper yields,
especially in the fall varieties. The
Virginias promise a very fair crop,
although smaller than that of 1910.
Information from New York state
under recent date shows heavier
droppings than is considered desir
able in some localities, while others
report blasting, but on the average
conditions indicate an exceedingly
large volume of tonnage.
Michigan reports are tit the same
general character.
Virginia reports are recent and
comprehensive. The Shenandoah Val
ley and eastern panhandle of West
Virginia promise crops of unusually
fine quality, but on the whole the
quantity will hardly exceed 60 or 65
per cent of last year s harvest. The
shortage is attributed to the las
late frost, and the excessive drouth
lasting three weeks. The drop has
also been abnormally heavy. The
railing off in the older orchards
which bore heavily last year, will be
offset, to a large extent, by the great
acreage of young orchards just com
ing Into bearing. The Shenandoah
valley was visited by severe hail
lightning and wind storms on June
6, the effect of which could not be
determined at the time of our ad
vices. Whatever damage has resulted
in the southern parts of the valley
may be equalized by the benefit of
rainfall in the northern sections,
OREGON CITIES PAVING.
Numerous Towns Are Engaged
Some Permanent Street Work
In
La Grande The Warren Construe
tlon company has completed the pav
ing of Sixth street and has begun
work on Main avenue. Washington
avenue is also being graded and the
rock has been laid for one block. On
Elm street everything is awaiting the
"hot stuff" which will be applied as
soon as Main avenue is completed
With these and other streets paved
and Second, West, Adams and South
Fourth macadamized, La Grande will
surely have as many first-class
streets as any town or city of its
size in Oregon.
Salem The city council has agreed
to lay hard surface pavement on
East State street instead of ma
cadam. It is the plan of the state
to construct a boulevard connecting
the penitentiary and the asylum if
this street is paved, and that will
mean much travel on the street and
in the judgment of the council, makes
it imperative that a hard surface
pavement be laid.
Medford Last year nearly 100,000
square yards of hard surface pave
ment was laid in Medford. Con
tracts aggregating nearly 150,000
square feet were carried over for
completion this year. This amount
with what has been contracted for
this season, to date brings the total
up to 270,000 square yards to be laid
this year.
Forest Grove Street Improvement
work is going rapidly on. Ditches
for the curbing on Main street from
North Second avenue to Pacific ave
nue have been made and are prac
tically ready to receive the concrete
mixture. Rock is being delivered for
constructing the 18 blocks of hard
surface streets for which the city
has contracted.
Baker Street paving fn Baker has
been delayed several times, but ac
tive work is now being pushed for
ward. Raker is doing so much pav
ing this year that there has been
some anxiety that the delay might
prove sufficient to prevent the com
pletion of all that is contemplated.
Springfield At an adjourned meet
ing of the common council a resolu
tion was passed providing for an ad
ditional bond Issue of $50,000, to be
expended In street improvement.
This action is in line with the coun
cil's plan to make Springfield a mod
el city.
Corvallis The paving of Third
street was begun several days ago
and the block between Madison and
Jefferson, with a part of the one to
the north, is entirely finished. The
street between Adams and Jackson
is 52 feet wide.
Pendleton The city council has
practically agreed to pave 1500 feet
of Alta street, or the connection between-
Main and Court streets. The
property abutting on the street in
cludes the courthouse and three
churches.
Grants Pas Contracts for th
paving of North Sixth street from B
street north to Evelyn avenue, and
the paving of B street from Sixth to
Seventh, have been let to the War
ren construction company, me rate
being $2.10 per square yard.
8000 BIBLES IN PARADE.
Demonstration Is Feature of Meth
odists at San Francisco.
i
San Francisco A parade of men,
estimated at 8000 in number, each
bearing a Bible, formed the most
spectacular feature of the session of
the International Sunday School As
sociation convention. One section
of the parade consisted of Civil
War veterans. The parage was re
viewed by women delegates and by
the convention officials, in addition
to thousands of assembled specta
tors. Among the Important features of
the day's session was the report of
W. C. Pearce, superintendent of the
adult department. The report says
that the past triennium has been one
of continuous progress in adult Bible
class work.
In a paper on "The Ten Years
an Asset and an Opportunity," Dr.
Edgar Blake, of Chicago, assistant
corresponding secretary of the Board
of Sunday Schools of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, said:
"The evangelical churches of Amer
ica are facing a very serious situa
tion. The six leading denominations
showed a net increase of only 384,
000 members in the year 1910. This
represents the combined efforts of
more than 160,000 churches and 17,
OuO.000 church members. Each net
gain of one represents the year's
work of 44 church members and the
cash outlay of more than $650."
The speaker said that unless there
was a change for the better the
church sooner or later would face
the problem of existence.
CYCLONE SINKS 100 CRAFT.
Chilean City Suffers Loss of Ten
Million Dollars.
Iquique A cyclone, accompanied
by rain and a high temperature,
struck this place Saturday. A hun
dred loaded lighters were sunk in
the harbor and ships were stripped
of their masts. The loss so far as
it is known, is estimated a't $10,
000,000. In the city roofs were blown from
some buildings. A panic was caused
and many persons were injured. Rain
rarely falls here.
The Italian ship Cavaliere Ciampha
was sunk. Telegraph poles were torn
down. It is feared that considerable
damage has been done at the nitrate
fields in the Interior.
The last cyclone preceding this was
experienced here in 1891.
It appears that the tornado also
swept Hisagua, Caleta, Tuena and
other towns. Its direction was north
and south. The telegraph lines are
down and full details of the havoc
have not been received.
Forty launches were blown ashore
in Lake Junin, which is at an ele
vation of 13,000 feet in the Andes.
LUMBER DEALERS INDICTED.
Retailers Form "Trust of Power"
Against Manufacturers.
Chicago, June 23 In 14 cases In
which retail lumber dealers are
charged with maintaining a "trust
of power," secretaries of lumbermen's
associations were indicted by the
United States grand jury here to
day. No conspiracy to maintain
prices or to restrict competition is
alleged. Instead, according to the
government, was a so-called trust
of "power," alleged to have been
manifested in the secretaries or the
retailers' organizations. This power,
it is charged, was exercised by means
of an alleged blacklist, the govern
ment charges, which contained the
names of such wholesalers and manu
facturers as violated the retailers'
rule forbidding the direct sale to
the consumer. Violation of the Sher
man act was found not in any trust
or capital, nor anything approach
ing a trust, ;as the term has been
applied in recent litigation.
Taft Classmate in Jail.
Oakland Thomas P. Wickes, serv
ing a six months' sentence in the
county jail here for passing a fraudu
lent check, was playing cards the
other afternoon, when the jailer hand
ed him a large envelope, dated Wash
ington, D. M. Opened, it proved
to be an invitation from President
and Mrs. Taft, inviting Wickes to
be present at the Taft silver wed
ding.
"I guess 1 11 not play any more,
said Wickes after a moment of con
templation and then went to hi3
cell.
Temblor Rocks Seattle.
Seattle A shock resembling a
slight earthquake was felt in West
Seattle at 9:45 Friday night. Lamps,
windows and small pieces of furni
ture In offices and homes were rat
tled vigorously for a few seconds in
the manner of a seismic shock or
explosion. There was no report of
an explosion and until the observa
tory at the University of Washington
Is opened it will not be known wheth
er a seismic disturbance was recorded
on the instruments there.
Potato Growers Prosper.
Stockton, Cal. Growers of pota
toes who were fortunate enough to
escape the early heavy frosts and
secure good crops are reaping big
profits these days. They are receiv
ing the best prices ever paid for
early potatoes and the buyers are
accepting all of the tubers offered.
One sale of ten cars of new pota
toes was made for $7000 on the
track before an engine hooked onto
the cars.
Mosby's Glory Fades.
San Diego, Cal. "General" J. R.
Mosby, who commanded the insur
gents In the Tia Juana fight, was
identified at Fort Rosecrans as a
deserter from the United States ma
rine corps. The identification was
made bv several marines who knew
him when he was stationed with part
J of the corps at Mare Island.
IS
Hame Roads Use Lawful Meth
ods to Combine.
No Changes in Rates Made Neglect
to Secure Santa Fe Is
Proof.
St. Louis The Government's peti
tion to enjoin the Northern Pacific
railroad continuing to control the
Southern Pacific railroad was dis
missed by the United States Circuit
Court of the eighth district. Judge
Elber B. Adams wrote the majority
opinion, which was concurred in by
Judge Sanborn and former Judge,
now Supreme Court Justice Vande
vauter. Judge William C. Hook
wrote a dissenting opinion.
The decree was entered at Sail
Lake City, where the suit was filed
in February, 1908, and the opinions
handed down in St. Paul, Salt Lake
City and here.
Judge Adams found that the rail
road merger, engineered by the late
E. H. Harriman and his associates
in 1901 and subsequently, did not
amount to a direct and substantial
restraint of trade, interstate or inter
national. He found that the suppression of
competition between the Union Pa
cific and the Southern Pacific was so
infinitesimally small that it was un
important; In connection with this
feature of the decision, Judge Adams
cited the recent Standard Oil de
cision, in which the rule of reason
was first laid down by the United
States Supreme Court.
Judge Hook, in his dissenting opin
ion, said the majority opinion "so
greatly narrows the act of congress
that very little is left of it when
applied to railroads," and that under
the tests which the majority opinion
was based on "the Union Pacific
could thereby have lawfully pur
chased control of all the great rail
way systems in the United States.
Judge Adams prefaced his opinion
with the statement that the Govern
ment must prove that the restraint
in trade alleged In the bill was sub
stantial in character as the direct
and immediate effect of the combi
nation. The Government, he said,
later, failed to prove this.
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WAR VESSELS IN REVIEW.
Eighteen Nations Represented
at
Gatherings of King's Fleet.
Portsmouth The warships of the
world boomed a royal salute in honor
of England's sailor king. Bright sun
shine came at last to lend its brill
iancy to one of the most impressive
scenes of all the gorgeous pageantry
attending the coronation of George
V.
In a double line six miles In length
floated the mightiest of Britain's war
ships. The lines were joined at
either end by a two-mile stretch of
smaller craft while off the Isle of
Wight 18 foreign vessels lay dressed
in glittering colors. Among them
was the American dreadnought Dela
ware, the greatest and most power
ful of all the huge fighting ships in
the vast armada assembled there.
The narrow waters of the Solent
never held so large a fleet. It was
the most effective ever brought to
gether. Every class was represented
and every one of the 1S5 ships an
chored was ready for active service.
. House Party Is Fatal.
Nantucket, Mass. Two young
women, Helen Wilson, of New ' York-
City, and Mildred Dellaven, of Brook
lyn, and one man, Ulysses Pahud,
lost their lives in a fire which de
stroyed a boathouse owned by Will
iam Barnes, Jr., chairman of the
New Y'ork Republican state commit
tee. Several other persons were in
jured, among them Thomas Kerr, of
New York City.
The fire was started by a match
thoughtlessly thrown on a recently
oiled floor. Almost immediately the
room was filled with flames, and
those who escaped did so only by
jumping overboard.
The bodies of the dead were re
covered, but both were burned be
yond recognition.
260,000 See Horse Show.
London The iaternatlonal horse
show a't Olympla closed Saturday.
From a spectacular and practical
standpoint, it surpassed its predeces
sor. More than 260,000 people at
tended. The value of horses and
paraphernalia exhibited amounted to
$5,000,000. The continental officers
did the most brilliant jumping, the
first five honors in the jumping con
tests being captured by the Russian.
Belgian, English and French respect
ively. The American officers gave a
good exhibition, but did not carry off
any prizes.
Suicide a Private Affair.
Los Angeles "Suicide Is a private
affair. There Is no more instinea-
tion for the publication of such ac
counts than there Is for publishing
other privte matters."
This is the assertion of a commit
tee of the American Academy of
Medicine, which investigated the
question of suicide, and in making
its report here requested the press
of America to refrain from further
publication of such affairs.
Nitrogen Plant Explodes.
Munich, Bavaria. A factory at
Trostberg, employed in recovering
nitrogen from the atmosphere, was
destroyed by a terrific explosion
originating from some unknown
cause In a reservoir containing sup
plies today.
So far as known three lives were
lost and six other persons were dan
gerously injured.
MERGER
UPHELD